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Jon: take a look at the dow, off 51 points right now, amid economic fears about the strength of the market in this country or the strength of the economy i should say. the philadelphia fed's manufacturing index dropped substantially at a time when everyone was expecting it to rise a little bit. that led to fears along with fears of a recession that is under way in europe and some softness in the chinese economy that we are far from out of the woods in the worldwide economic situation in the dow. the dow is down 45 points right now. jenna: well the ricin poison scare is rattling washington and ...

>> there has been an arrest, so you probably aren't aware of in mississippi, there's been an arrest in the ricin case according to two federal law enforcement officials here at cnn. they the arrest was in the tupelo, mississippi area.ell us this? >> yeah, i knew they had a suspect in this case, and i'm glad to see they have been able to apprehend and arrest this individual. and i would again make the assertion that it really has no relation to t boston bombings, it's very reminisce end of the anthrax attacks after 9/11. it's very dangerous when you have people sending poison to federal officer...

Are, wolf. but i think because you saw the bombings on monday and now these letters coming on tuesday that that is a question that a lot of people have. there's some similarity here. and we've heard our dana bash talking about this. she certainly went through this following 9/11 with the anthrax attacks that happened. some letters of which went to capitol hill -- or one letter went to capitol hill. and there was -- that was something that happened weeks after 9/11. and in this case though we're talking about just today. so it raises all of these questions about whether there may be connections...

Since the anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001, you know, congress changed the tway receives mail. we know at the white house the mail receiving center is not at the white house. it's in some other part of washington d.c. but how did the senate and the house change their tactics because mitch mcconnell said earlier today that the system that was put in place back then worked today. go ahead and explain that. >> absolutely right, bill. they moved it off site and it went to fatal in landover, maryland where all of the mail that comes to the united states senator's office is screened, tested, open...

Terrorists as help dropped the bombs near the trash cans stphaoeu want to talk -- dash. jon: i want to talk to you about ricin in a minute and the scare that is underway on capitol hill where you are. i want to take you back a little bit by means after poll asked whether men's were worried, or how worried they were that someone in their families would become victims of a terror attack. right now the number stands at 36%. this is in august of 2011. go back to december of 2005 when asked that question the number was 41%. and in october of 2001 a month after the 9/11 attacks 59%. clearly we have ...